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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 7:17:28 PM
Finally other self-driving cars will be able to actually see like Google Waymos. I'm certain any "Tesla Taxi" will have to be retrofitted with a Luminar Halo or other Lidar.
Luminar, an American Lidar company based in Orlando, Florida starts shipping lidar for China-owned Volvo and their EX90 — while readying its next-gen sensor
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138224/volvo-ex90-production-start-luminar-lidar-halo-sensor
Luminar has worked with Swiss Re to measure how lidar can reduce the severity of accidents and found that its tech resulted in about 27 percent reduction in accidents and about 40 percent reduction in severity compared to the top-performing vehicles with camera and radar-based systems (aka blind Teslas).
Luminar’s new Halo sensor, weighs under one kilogram, and only uses about 10 watts of power. This uses four of the next-generation chips from Luminar Semiconductor Inc., which it says will enable four times performance improvements, three times the reduction in size, and twice the thermal efficiency compared to Iris. Luminar is moving forward with 1550nm lidars, stating it wants to “avoid future performance and power consumption issues associated with 905nm.”
The order of lidar sensors to Volvo, which Luminar notes is worth $4 billion, comes after Volvo announced last year that it had to push production start of the EX90 to early 2024. The placement like a visor on the roof of the car allows the sensor to sort of blend into the roofline/
Luminar’s lidar tech sits on top of the vehicle like a visor and uses lasers to create a 3D environment around it. The placement allows the sensor to sort of blend into the roofline; however, the company’s current “Iris” sensors are still a bit obvious when looking at its partner vehicles like the EX90 and new Mercedes Benz racing vehicles.
In 2022 Innoviz Lidar based in Israel signed a similar $4 billion contract for Lidars with VW and BMW.
Luminar, an American Lidar company based in Orlando, Florida starts shipping lidar for China-owned Volvo and their EX90 — while readying its next-gen sensor
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138224/volvo-ex90-production-start-luminar-lidar-halo-sensor
Luminar has worked with Swiss Re to measure how lidar can reduce the severity of accidents and found that its tech resulted in about 27 percent reduction in accidents and about 40 percent reduction in severity compared to the top-performing vehicles with camera and radar-based systems (aka blind Teslas).
Luminar’s new Halo sensor, weighs under one kilogram, and only uses about 10 watts of power. This uses four of the next-generation chips from Luminar Semiconductor Inc., which it says will enable four times performance improvements, three times the reduction in size, and twice the thermal efficiency compared to Iris. Luminar is moving forward with 1550nm lidars, stating it wants to “avoid future performance and power consumption issues associated with 905nm.”
The order of lidar sensors to Volvo, which Luminar notes is worth $4 billion, comes after Volvo announced last year that it had to push production start of the EX90 to early 2024. The placement like a visor on the roof of the car allows the sensor to sort of blend into the roofline/
Luminar’s lidar tech sits on top of the vehicle like a visor and uses lasers to create a 3D environment around it. The placement allows the sensor to sort of blend into the roofline; however, the company’s current “Iris” sensors are still a bit obvious when looking at its partner vehicles like the EX90 and new Mercedes Benz racing vehicles.
In 2022 Innoviz Lidar based in Israel signed a similar $4 billion contract for Lidars with VW and BMW.
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